Title :
MD-11 Electronic Instrument System
Author :
Morgan, John ; Miller, John
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Inc., Phoenix, AZ, USA
Abstract :
The MD-11 Electronic Instrument System (EIS) was designed to replace all primary electromechanical instruments within the flight deck and provide the two-pilot crew with all relevant information to perform their tasks without unnecessary or undue workload. Minimizing the crew workload was imperative because the MD-11 took a different approach to subsystem (fuel, hydraulics, environmental, and electrical) management by automating the normal and abnormal actions in these subsystems. The EIS as the primary information management system on the MD-11 balances the pilot´s demand for information with his need for information and the associated workload impact. Simplification of the overhead panels together with human-factored synoptics, crew alerting, and system checklist, achieves this task
Keywords :
aerospace computer control; aircraft instrumentation; computer architecture; computerised instrumentation; display instrumentation; man-machine systems; safety systems; MD-11 Electronic Instrument System; crew alerting; flight deck; information management system; pilot´s demand; primary electromechanical instruments; system architecture; system checklist; system display; two-pilot crew; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft navigation; Aircraft propulsion; Automatic control; Design automation; Displays; Fuels; Instruments; Phase frequency detector; Standardization;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1992. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA 11th
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0820-4
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.1992.282148
